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He is a multi-instrumentalist, conductor, translator, composer and teacher born in Sydney, Australia, who is an Honours graduate from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He began to play the violin when he was 9 years old but he is also proficient on the double bass, guitar, keyboards, percussion.

In the 1980s he was in the bands Adrenalin and Carbon Copy and during the 1990s he often played Celtic music as a member of The Ragged Band, which toured Japan and made appearances at Australian folk festivals. He went on to form the Fiddlefest String Quartet and become a Hawkesbury National Fiddle Festival co-ordinator. As a conductor he leads the a-capella choir Chorella along with several other ensembles.

In 1994 he wrote the music for the theatre production The Bottom Line and in 1995 his Steel Point reached the finals of the composer’s competition run by the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra with the Wittenberg University Orchestra premiering it in the US the following year.

His work in compositions has seen him writing orchestral works, string quartets, pieces for solo instruments, stage and concert music, electronic works, film scores such as The Third Note and Backflip and songs and he has been the recipient of several awards such as the 1994 John Antill prize. He is also the writer of a translation of the popular Welsh song “The Ash Grove” and the choral work “We Wommen Konne No Thyng Hele”.

In the studio he has appeared on the recording Up the Sides and Down the Middle with The Ragged Band. In musical education he is on the faculty of Eoria Centre for Aboriginal Studies at Chippendale, Sydney, where he teaches music technology. He is a member of the Delian Society currently lives in Kurrajong and works in, Sydney, Australia.

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